Simple earrings

I needed red earrings for a chorus performance. Hm. I went through my stash and found sparkly red beads, wire, and ear hooks.

Photo description: one long earring strung with red crystal beads, with the second earring parts including the silver wire, beads, ear hook, and pliers

I bent the end of the wire into a very small loop, strung on the beads, and made a larger loop that connected to the ear hook. Simple, sparkly, red.

Wasp

It is a little startling to be singing along at chorus practice, inside, and have a wasp land on your flower tattoo. I walked it outside and blew it off my arm before going back to rehearsal.

Photo description: wasp on my arm near the silk moth my black and white floral tattoo celebrating fiber sources

A testament to the skill of my tattoo artist, I guess!

Throwback Thursday: Thanksgiving

Photo description: three male wild turkeys in full display facing away from the camera toward an empty field at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center in 2019

Strut your stuff, even if no one is watching. Hope y’all have a Happy Thanksgiving with minimal baking mishaps.

Chicken rock

One of my friends enjoys painting and has quite a flair for it. She had painted rocks at the chorus craft fair and I just had to buy the one that looked like Wing Ding! And then take a picture of Wing Ding with her effigy.

Photo description: Wing Ding the Black Star hen in molt standing behind the painted rock with a black chicken that I’m holding. Painting by Corinna Standlee.

Woven Tencel

I was only able to get three swatches from my Tencel sample, knitted, crocheted, and woven. I wove this swatch on a Clover mini loom, with the warp doubled. To finish it I ran the warp back up through the weft passes. I like the edge the method makes, but I don’t like how wonky this piece came out.

Photo description: plain weave swatch made on a Clover mini loom with three ply hand spun Tencel yarn
Photo description: same woven swatch after blocking, but still wonky

I’m going to blame the spin on this one.

P.S. Sorry if you received this post twice by email. I usually schedule my posts about three days out, and I hit the wrong button, tried to retract it, and put it on the proper schedule. I wasn’t fast enough and the email went out. It bothered me to have this series of posts out of order, so I fixed it for the blog, but those emails may have a duplicate or not resend. Ah, technology.